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The U.S. is already in recession, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, citing the Economic Cycle...

  • Monday, July 16, 2012, 12:03 PM ET
    The U.S. is already in recession, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, citing the Economic Cycle Research Institute, adding that the Fed has "drifted into fatalism." The risk is that the Fed is repeating the errors of early to mid 2008 "when failure to respond turned a common garden recession into a disaster." Bernanke's at fault for that. What's needed now is "nuclear force" to drive GDP up to 5%.
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  • If increasing debt 21% to get just 1% GDP isn't enough then the nuke he asks for just may destroy the planet.
    16 Jul 2012, 12:05 PM Reply Like
  • more like "nuclear war" maybe since QE and gov't stimulus is clearly ineffective...
    16 Jul 2012, 12:06 PM Reply Like
  • I new i built that solid gold sphere for a reason.

    Now i know.
    16 Jul 2012, 12:08 PM Reply Like
  • That can only come from the fiscal side, and as long as Obama and his job killing policies are in place, we will muddle along at 2% or less growth.
    16 Jul 2012, 12:25 PM Reply Like
  • I read AEP pretty regularly, and this article certainly was not one of his better efforts. Such obviously foolish "opining" seems to persuade virtually no one who is not already in that camp, but it does diminish his credibility in general. I hope he isn't adopting the MarketWatch authors' approach of trying to incite their critics just to increase comments and page views.
    16 Jul 2012, 12:25 PM Reply Like
  • Yes...... Bernacke doesn't know what to do but I bet you don't either....
    16 Jul 2012, 12:26 PM Reply Like
  • "failure to respond?" thats the problem, they responded too much.
    central banks DONT create jobs or build an economy - they provide juice to big banks
    16 Jul 2012, 12:35 PM Reply Like
  • There is NO nuclear option short of TIME!
    If we are smart,(and Bubble Blowin Ben so far proves he is not), we will stop all this QE garbage and allow time to work for a while!

    This is a deflationary, deleveraging cycle!
    It is depressionary in its nature!
    Bernanke through his hubris has all but guaranteed another depression.
    How ironic the man deemed so smart as to avoid the mistakes of the past,
    never learned from the past and in turn will go down in history with Alan "I wasn't wrong, my models were" Greenspan as the worst central bankers EVER!

    The fact that we are saddled with a neo communist administration who does NOT believe in capitalism and the free markets is also a shock to the normal recovery process!

    The GM bondholders who were put second behind the unions and the politicians biggest donors was the biggest tell the world shrugged off due to a complicit media!

    Mr. Obama does not walk on water!
    His "Collective Salvation" and the whole "Hope and Change" mantra are repugnant to the true functioning of our Capitalist System where if you work hard, you have the CHANCE to make it!

    We have let this Frank Marshall Davis reared pupil who couldn't stand the sight of the bust of Winston Churchill in the oval office so much he sent it back to the U.K.!

    Obama is and anti colonialist and as such does not want the country to be at the "Commanding Heights" and is doing all he can to make sure we have a "One World Order" and that is not a healthy environment for our capitalist system!

    The depression is a cleansing cycle, we will survive it, make no mistake!
    But we will never over come it with a second Obama term!
    Let us not fail this epic challenge because we chose to sit down!

    America is great because Americans are GOOD!
    This election will see the history of this country restored or forever TRANSFORMED into God only knows what!

    May the good lord watch over this fragile little experiment in freedom / man's self rule we lovingly call America
    16 Jul 2012, 12:38 PM Reply Like
  • Has there ever been a period in the US where job growth was positive and GDP was contracting at 2%? Our economy is slowing because of Europe and China, not because of a lack of Fed activity.
    16 Jul 2012, 02:02 PM Reply Like
  • The whole situation is pitiful. $1.5 trillion annual deficit and we're at stall speed 1% GPD- probably in recession. With all this spending its hard to comprehend where the money is actually going. I can tell you its not coming my way...
    16 Jul 2012, 04:04 PM Reply Like
  • I agree with Into Dark Shadows. Bernanke is the MOST DANGEROUS man on the planet right now. So misguided, so foolish. Why can't he just go hide in a 3rd rate university somewhere, maybe in Greece or Italy.
    16 Jul 2012, 11:35 PM Reply Like
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